From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [212.60.202.196] (helo=mail.kernelconcepts.de) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Hy7Eg-00046V-OM for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:20:43 +0200 Received: from [212.60.202.194] (helo=[192.168.2.131]) by mail.kernelconcepts.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hy7Do-0003YF-1c for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:19:48 +0200 Message-ID: <466EAB05.40203@kernelconcepts.de> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:17:41 +0200 From: Florian Boor User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 Subject: Re: [RFC] Creating an OpenEmbedded founation X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:20:46 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Holger Freyther schrieb: > So the natural question is do we need a foundation at all? Everything > seems to work just fine! judging from the bad experience we had with handhelds.org lately we would have been able to avoid a major part of the trouble by creating some kind of official institution to cover GPE (and other projects as well). So even it is currently looks like a foundation is not necessary you usually would not recognize the fact that you need one before it is too late. > So what shouldn't a foundation do? > -Make things more complicated Well... a foundation will always cause some additional overhead, I guess its hard to avoid this. > -Doing business as this is where companies are good at. We mean it! That's quite important, but if our foundation starts to make business that would cause quite a lot of interest conflicts. > -Own the projects assets. This would include server equipment, > devices, hopefully domain-names, etc. We should consider to make a foundation that is open to cover additional projects as well. That might be interesting for smaller projects and maybe even for LinuxToGo. > -Maintain relationship with Companies This would be really useful if we want to get more contributions from companies that maybe use OE already but did not get involved into the project itself. > OpenEmbedded e.V. (e.V. is the german expression for registered > associatio): > > Pros: > -Tightly regulated by german authorities. This helps us to stick > with the DO's and avoid the DON'Ts > -KDE e.V. and probably the GNOME Deutschland e.V. > Cons: > -Quite an overhead. We need to hold general assemblies, manage our > assets ourselves, try to get tax detuctable. > -Managing of members... I would prefer an e.V. - it is really some overhead, but it has some very important advantages: - It is a legal entity based on European law. - Its basic intention is to cover groups with a common interest like we are. - It is forced to be transparent. The last point is the most important in my opinion. Even if it is some overhead there should be quite a lot examples around that might provide a good template we could start with. Greetings Florian -- The dream of yesterday Florian Boor is the hope of today Tel: +49 271-771091-15 and the reality of tomorrow. Fax: +49 271-771091-19 [Robert Hutchings Goddard, 1904] florian.boor@kernelconcepts.de 1D78 2D4D 6C53 1CA4 5588 D07B A8E7 940C 25B7 9A76